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It's interesting how we have to really think to come up with songs about anything other than love.

It's also fun to change the word "love" to "lunch."

Lunch The One Your With?

Lunch is all around? A world without lunch? Lunch me do? One sided lunch affair? Ehm. Sorry, couldn't resist.
The Scaffold were cool, BTW. "Thank you very much" is a great song, imho. But i guess it might fall into that "love & relationship" category.

A Boy Named Sue

Mark: By substituting lunch for love, the dieters' folly, it certainly reminds us of how often love is in the title of hit tunes. There are some funny outcomes as well. Seeing as I am on lunch break, it is worth commenting on a few.

There have been some interesting lunches over the years such as Kathy Kirby's "Secret Lunch" and for a real Mindbender try "A Groovy Kind of - Game of Lunch." The wishful Yardbirds have asked "For Your Lunch" while the frugal Searchers insist that you "Don't Throw Your Lunch Away."

The philosophical Beatles consider that "All You Need Is Lunch" but Gene Pitney argued asserting that "Nobody Needs Your Lunch" to which the Fabs tongue-in-cheek reply was you "Can't Buy Me Lunch."

Not looking where he was going the famous Elvis Presley said I "Can't Help Falling In Lunch" and the inattentive Tom Jones agreed and following his date with Shirley Bassey vowed "I'll Never Fall In Lunch Again." Shirley is still asking "What Now My Lunch?"

This has give me a nice break from work and a little indigestion. Perhaps the Supremes were right when they advised "You Can't Hurry Lunch." This resulted in only a "Baby Lunch" though and with them wondering "Where Did Our Lunch Go."

I am with Sandy Shaw who considered "Long Live Lunch" but also think Lulu was right to "Leave A Little Lunch." As I have wasted my break, it's back to work without "My Lunch."

And after that touch of brilliance Peter let's conclude with The Carpenters Goodbye To Lunch.

Well done Roy! Ha Ha I was expecting "Stop In The Name Of Lunch."

Get Off My Cloud
"lunch" that drum beat, Stones at their most raucous, cynical best

For Peter and Stan and of course anyone else the aforementioned requests, plus a little self indulgence, an instrumental version of Blackberry Way, done quite recently by The Vibratos who are Warren Bennett, son of Brian Bennett(Shadows) and Dick Plant an ex recording engineer who worked on Shadow's albums and he cites John McNally as an influence, so he'll do for me.

Stan, The Scaffold, were a trio from Liverpool who featured Mike McCartney, Paul's younger brother, they were essentially art students and one ended up being a poet. They were essentially a comedy act to some degree, but chalked up 6 hits in UK between 67 and 74, Lily the Pink made number 1 in Nov 68.

The Move took Blackberry Way to number 1 in December 68.

I hasten to add I did not buy any Scaffold records.



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Roy: Blackberry Way by the Move was certainly of interest, however, the instrumental version by the Vibratos stole the day in my view.

Thanks so much for your humourous lunch-box package. It was so nostalgic I am still looking for the thermos.

The Vibratos version is definitely played in the style of the Shadows with a little James Bond (Vic Flick) theme borrowed from the Move. If you listen carefully there is a Beatlesque quality to the arrangement. Very up beat and a great listen.

Meet you in the cafeteria!

Peter, where I come from a lunch break is called a nooner. But what an excellent and productive lunch break you had, A Lunch Supreme! (And to think they called it Puppy Lunch) Hey, you better hide your lunch away...

**Quote: I love a "love song" but why weren't more hit songs about other things?**

I've thought a lot about this question over the years. Songs about love seem to be the easiest to write about, one way or another. But to write about anything else usually takes more insight and talent to pull off, and even then, will it appeal to the general public? Think of Dylan's "Desolation Row," a very artful, virtuoso piece of rock and roll poetry...but it took an exceptional artist to pull it off, and it was never going to the Top Ten.

Some topical songs are too preachy, as in "Power to the People", maybe; but they can also be pulled off perfectly, as in "Imagine."

There are story songs like "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and dance songs like "The Peppermint Twist" and audio vignettes like "Take a Walk On The Wild Side" and even entire albums devoted to bitching about the record industry like "Lola vs Powerman," but they depend on very intelligent performers to make them work.

...a bloody dissertation. Thanks Roy for that blast from the past. I really like the Move, though they are very much Of Their Time. Lily the Pink makes me want to hit the nearest pub and score some pills?? Love it.

Louie Louie is about a guy at sea who can't wait to get home and see his girlfriend.

Louie Louie Lyrics



CHORUS:

Louie Louie, oh no
Me gotta go
Aye-yi-yi-yi, I said
Louie Louie, oh baby
Me gotta go

Fine little girl waits for me
Catch a ship across the sea
Sail that ship about, all alone
Never know if I make it home

CHORUS

Three nights and days I sail the sea
Think of girl, constantly
On that ship, I dream she's there
I smell the rose in her hair.

CHORUS

Okay, let's give it to 'em, right now!

GUITAR SOLO

See Jamaica, the moon above
It won't be long, me see me love
Take her in my arms again
Tell her I'll never leave again

CHORUS

Let's take it on outa here now
Let's go!!

more facts about the Scaffold:-

First hit in the UK 'Thank you very much' was actually written by Mike Mcgear (Mccartney) and got to no 4 in late 67.

Graham Nash of the Hollies sings one of the verses on Lily the Pink, on the Jennefer Eccles bit.

I always imagined that the medicine mentioned in Lily the Pink must be an alcoholic drink, maybe a pink gin.

From Rob

Thanks for these nuggets Rob. They really add another element to consider when listening to these songs.

A few more songs to consider:-

All top ten in the UK

canned heat - on the road again (he's on a lonely road)

beatles - eleanor rigby / yellow submarine (Loneliness / fantasy ride)

jimi hendrix - all along the watchtower (An allegorical tale about the sweeping away of society’s old guard - from bbc web site)

donovan - there is a mountain (not sure what this is about)

lonnie donegan - my old mans a dustman (about his Dad)

bob dylan - subterranean homesick blues (not sure what this is about, but think its a protest song)

dubliners - seven drunken nights (A drinking song,never heard this one)

byrds - 8 miles high (story of when the byrds first came to the UK - only made 24 in the UK but i like this one!!!)

From Rob